Response to The Demise of "Form Follows Function", Dieter Rams: 10 Principals of Good Design, and Startups, this is how design works. If you took someone from the 1600s, and had them try to function a microwave, no matter how well designed, it still would be as difficult as an an iPhone. "Smart phones," although a brick of electronics with endless possibilities, do a good job of setting up the user to be able to function with little to no instruction. Although the physical form could me considered misleading, the majority of the functionality is with the form of the software in the phone more than the hardware. Personally, I've never read the instructions for my iPhone and operate it perfectly, yet have to ask my partner how to change the power level on our microwave every time I need to melt butter. While through the The Demise of Form Follows Function seems to assume us this would not be true and phones would be more challenging than a microwave, given that it displays form is as its function. On my phone, I touch to access apps, which then have more things to touch an move, with no instruction. Having been raised in the system, these things are never a struggle. Dieter Rams also commended Apple in the early 2000s for the design of the first few generations of iPod, saying that Apple was one of the few companies designing who were doing design right, which is very high praise.
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